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Week starting Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Degas: A New Vision offers the most significant international survey in nearly 30 years of the work of Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas. The MFAH is the only U.S. venue for this exhibition, which assembles some 200 works from public and private collections around the world.

Homeschool families explore the photographs of New York-based artist Vera Lutter, on view in the exhibition of her work, and discover how she utilizes a room-sized camera obscura to capture large, black-and-white negative images. In[…]

The exhibition Contingent Beauty: Contemporary Art from Latin America brings together a selection of major works by 21 artists who are recognized as pioneers or precursors of key artistic trends both inside and outside their[…]

Homeschool families explore the photographs of New York-based artist Vera Lutter, on view in the exhibition of her work, and discover how she utilizes a room-sized camera obscura to capture large, black-and-white negative images. In[…]

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition “Pleasure and Piety: The Art of Joachim Wtewael (1566–1638)” A remarkable storyteller, Mannerist painter Joachim Wtewael depicted risqué mythological scenes and moralizing biblical tales with equal ease. He was a virtuoso[…]

Conserving Diversity Today and Tomorrow: From Your Garden to the North Pole Presented by Cary Fowler, PhD A reception with coffee precedes the program at 9:30 a.m. Get inspired to try new things in your[…]

The exhibition Contingent Beauty: Contemporary Art from Latin America brings together a selection of major works by 21 artists who are recognized as pioneers or precursors of key artistic trends both inside and outside their[…]

Join Rienzi and Bayou Bend for good books and great conversations! This edition of the History Book Club features a discussion about Unwise Passions: A True Story of a Remarkable Woman—and the First Great Scandal of[…]

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition “Pleasure and Piety: The Art of Joachim Wtewael (1566–1638)” A remarkable storyteller, Mannerist painter Joachim Wtewael depicted risqué mythological scenes and moralizing biblical tales with equal ease. He was a virtuoso[…]

Join Rienzi and Bayou Bend for good books and great conversations! This edition of the History Book Club features a discussion about Unwise Passions: A True Story of a Remarkable Woman—and the First Great Scandal of[…]